Satan always tempts the pure – the others are already his.
FULTON J. SHEENSkeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
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It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.
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It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
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There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, ‘Good morning, God,’ and the other is to say, ‘Good God, morning’!
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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
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Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.
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Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.
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Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.
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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
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If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.
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